1. A new measure in Germany will require most listed and cooperative companies to have at least one woman on their boards. Once the number of members on the board is three, one member must be a woman.
2. A new series on Amazon Prime Radioactive stars British actress Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize winner who pioneered research into radioactivity. #WomeninSTEM
3. The vaccine now in production for COVID-19 by AstraZeneca and having a 90% success rate was developed by Prof Sarah Gilbert at the University of Oxford. Prof Gilbert said “From the beginning, we’re seeing it as a race against the virus, not a race against other vaccine developers. We’re a university and we’re not in this to make money.”
4. “Democracy has prevailed,” Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said, following the certification of all US election votes from her state. The certification has now contributed to President Donald Trump formally conceding the election, 16 days since Joe Biden won.
5. Piruze Sabuncu has been appointed the first female investment partner of Square Peg Capital, as it moves further into the south-east Asia sector.
